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| India-Pakistan |
| Polio workers' safety |
| 2015-03-22 |
| [DAWN] WE are living in a nuclear state which has developed ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, trainer/fighter aircraft, tanks and armed drones. But we are unable to ensure immunity for our future generations from crippling and potentially fatal diseases such as polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... . We usually fail to address challenges because of lack of will rather than lack of resources. The campaign to eradicate polio demonstrates as much. On the one hand, despite the necessary fatwas from religious scholars that the polio vaccine does not contravene Islamic teachings, those opposed to the vaccine campaign are bent upon creating hurdles. On the other, the provincial governments themselves appear reluctant to face the challenge squarely. Our failure to combat polio has cost us dearly in terms of our international image -- we number among the last three polio-endemic countries -- and has resulted in the World Health Organisation recommending travel restrictions for unvaccinated travellers. Polio counters have been set up in the country's international airports. In the case of polio, different NGOs and USAID give assistance such as cycle of violences for transport and free vaccines. Unfortunately, many of these go missing. Donors are thus surprised with the state's attitude. Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... the dangerous trend of killing health workers tasked with ensuring that children are immunised during anti-polio drives continues. Not only are the health workers, many of them women, targeted, so too are the security personnel deputed to protect them. It is small wonder then that polio workers are afraid to undertake their responsibilities, especially when they feel the provincial governments are not doing enough to ensure their safety. |
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